A Digital Health Accelerator

Healthcare-oriented investors in Spartanburg, SC are creating a digital health accelerator in a location called “The Iron Yard.” Proponents are seeking to recruit ten companies that will focus on improvements for hospital management—e.g. billing, supply chain, scheduling—and among the early responders to join are the Mayo Clinic, AbbeVie (Abbott Labs), Zebra Technologies, and BMW. This ought to be an attractive model for economic development, which seems less interested in incubators than in accelerators. MORE